Best & Worst Video Game Movies

The Best & Worst Video Game Movies

The recent onslaught of announcements on forthcoming adaptations of recent video games into sci-fi blockbusters is not a surprise. Hollywood is hungry for new material and creative ideas, and Chris Nolan can only make so many movies. It seems logical that they would look to the creative genius behind some of the brilliant storylines and worlds devised for the worlds of PlayStation and Xbox. The problem? Well, to be hones, the track record of this strategy is awful.

It seems like every single time Hollywood has tried to adapt a film into a game or vice versa, the results are always disappointing. Scratch that. They are always bad. But the new slew of content coming out of the world of video game companies like Ubisoft and EA is nothing short of inspired. And this inspiration is giving us some hope.

So in fairness we felt that the 1-5 entries on this list should suggest reasons to be optimistic. Be wary, but be hopeful. We are.